Court Remands Case for Proper Traveling Employee Analysis

The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission performed the wrong legal analysis in awarding death benefits to the surviving heir of a woman who died in a car crash while delivering supplies for her employer. Though the commission may have correctly concluded that Grace Keeton's actions were not so reckless as to disqualify her estate from receiving death benefits, the 5th District Appellate Court of Illinois said the intentional misconduct analysis was ultimately irrelevant because she was a traveling employee. "Thus, rather than requiring proof that decedent's actions...